âWe were very engaged with them and the technical information that they were able to provide us about what happened on their network helped us using our more classified capabilities to warn two other entities they were about to be victims as well to prevent them from becoming victims,â Noble said on Wednesday.
Noble said ASD could launch attacks against criminals offshore when there was a reasonable level of confidence it would not involve Australians. But it did not do so during the Nine incident.
The ASD did launch attacks against scammers and hackers who were targeting Australians in April 2020 when the Covid pandemic was taking hold in Australia.